Data Systems
IT Infrastructure & Management
Opinion
6 Things Schools Need to Know About Interoperability
Technologist and privacy advocate Bill Fitzgerald argues that school districts and education companies need to better understand the problems interoperability can solve and those that it can’t.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Quiz
Quiz Yourself: How Much Do You Know About Interoperability?
Quiz Yourself: What is interoperability and how can interoperability standards be adopted?
IT Infrastructure & Management
5 Big Tech Trends Worth Watching This School Year
Beyond new apps and gadgets, worries around cybersecurity, media literacy, and school safety will drive the technology conversation this school year.
Federal
How Data Helped Head Start Centers Tackle a 'No Show' Problem
Getting a more accurate enrollment count for the start of the school year is just one way that Head Start centers use data to improve operations.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Making School-Spending Data Transparent and Accessible Is No Easy Lift
ESSA’s new requirement that districts report school-by-school spending numbers could prove a boon to the public and parents, and a headache for school administrators.
School & District Management
Schools Struggle to Use Data to Spark Improvement
While K-12 schools focus primarily on using student achievement data for accountability purposes, experts contend that it can be a catalyst for daily improvement.
School & District Management
Ed-Tech Company Clever to Help Schools Track Tech Usage—For a Cost
After building a huge K-12 footprint with free solutions to address challenges, the company will charge schools to tackle of one of ed tech’s most glaring problems.
School & District Management
Schools Struggle to Keep Pace With Hackings, Other Cyber Threats
New survey data show K-12 technology leaders have been slow to identify and respond to cybersecurity challenges, resulting in problems nationwide.
Assessment
What 150 Years of Education Statistics Say About Schools Today
Even before there was a federal education department, there was a federal education statistics agency. The National Center for Education Statistics turns 150 this year and a look at its studies over those years shows just how much American schooling has grown and changed.
Teaching
Opinion
Students: You're the Reason I Come to School Every Day
School talk today is generally around rigorous content and 21st-century skills and how we can measure those to make schools accountable. There is, however, a much more powerful, if subtle, set of factors that makes going to school worthwhile for both students and teachers.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Ransomware Attacks Force School Districts to Shore Up—or Pay Up
Schools are being hit with a form of malware that locks away computer files unless they can be restored from backups or a ransom is paid.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Opinion
Data Are Critical for High-Mobility Students
Under ESSA, states must now account for the unique challenges of measuring the academic growth of homeless, foster, and military-connected students, write two data consultants.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Data Looms Large in Quest for New School-Quality Indicator
States are looking hard at what it will take to gather the right information for a new indicator of school quality or student success under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Not All School Attendance Data Are Created Equal
To address absenteeism, it's not enough to just look at numbers of school days students miss, write Russell Rumberger and Michael Gottfried.